Whole Food Multivitamin Supplements

11/04/2010

Look for certifications. If the multivitamins do not state ISO 9001, ISO 17025 and NSF chances are slim that they have a high quality standard for their product.

ISO 9001 means the multivitamin company met all the quality standards for it's certification.

ISO 17025 means a third-party (PHD's) guarantee the final product on the onsite laboratories.

NSF means the multivitamins are a top quality product audited by a not-for-profit organization. It has been said NSF certification auditors are the most comprehensive and are in business strictly to benefit the consumer.

Always know what you are putting into your body. If you don't know what something is on the label or ingredient, look it up.

11/03/2010

If your multivitamin has Iron, make sure not to take your calcium pills while taking your multivitamin. The reason why is iron and calcium bind to each other and prevents your body from absorbing either one.

Same goes with your fiber supplements, take multivitamins at a separate time.

Here's another good fact. You digest foods and multivitamin supplements better with a fat soluble.

Primarily fat solubles are vitamins A D E & K. That's why it's important to take your supplements with meals so you can absorb all the properties from the multivitamins.

Spread out your pills throughout the day.

Fiber is a tricky one. Women should take 20-25 grams of fiber per day and men should have 30-35 grams. Ill get into fiber more next week but take your fiber powder or pill right when you wake in the morning with a fat soluble. Wait for an hour for breakfast and proceed with the multivitamins.

Take your other fiber supplement a couple hours before dinner with a light snack or post workout shake.

So, Fiber when you wake up, multivitamin supplement in the morning with breakfast, your calcium in the afternoon with lunch, more fiber with a light snack or post work out shake and your other pills in the evening with dinner. xxx <3 A&L

11/02/2010

Multivitamins are needed for those who do not consume the appropriate amount of vitamins and minerals necessary in everyday foods. Since most people cook, steam, bake, pasteurize, homogenize and eat highly processed foods in an inorganic nature and the nutritional benefits are taken out of what you eat.

The mayo clinic states that "Dietary supplements aren't intended to be a food substitute because they can't replicate all the nutrients and benefits of whole foods such as fruits and vegetables." MAYO CLINIC ARTICLE

So it's best to take a supplement that is close as possible to eating real food.

There's 180 vegetarian capsules and made from raw foods. That's a 3 month supply. These cost from $35-$45 if you include shipping. Costing you $0.22 a day if you take 2 capsules daily.

Whole food vitamins give you,

Protective substances

Higher micro-nutrients

Essential fiber

Find an organic whole food multivitamin, vegetarian capsule to take daily. This way you know your multivitamins are the closest to it's natural form possible as if you were consuming real food. xxx A&L

11/01/2010

What is a supplement? A multivitamin supplement is defined in the United States as a supplement containing 3 or more vitamins and minerals that does not include herbs, hormones or drugs where each vitamin and mineral is included at the dose below the tolerable upper level, as determined by the Food and Drug Board, and does not present a risk of adverse health effects.

I personally do not take just any multivitamin, I take a whole food, organic vegetarian multivitamin capsules. The benefits are huge over the other multivitamins that are more commonly used.

First off, whole food multivitamins come from a natural form. It's from a plant (vegetable or fruit) and not chemically processed. No additives or fillers.

The most important factor to me is that the mulitvitamin is not processed with chemicals that I can't pronounce.

If you see a vitamin listed under "Supplement Facts" then you know it's synthetic unless otherwise specified.

If you currently take a synthetic vitamin I believe your money is being wasted. Our body's can't assimilate processed synthetic foods. It's defeating the purpose of why you're taking a multivitamin in the first place. xxx <3 A&L